The Mummy's Curse

Update: In passing, have to note that I just read a later interview with the late Virginia Christine, in which she admitted that Chaney was essentially "stoned" out of his mind the entire time the film was being made, and, during the scenes where his Mummy had to lift and carry her, she always worried that he was going to drop her and break a few of her bones. OK...objectively speaking, there's no way this is a 5-star picture, but it's haunted me since I first saw it in childhood, and it remains one of my favorite old-time horror films. The Mummy series was never considered Universal's most successful or inspired productions, and it's easy to see why...outside of the first entry that starred Boris Karloff, it featured Lon Chaney Jr. (or, in one installment, cowboy star Tom Tyler) in bandages and a rubber mask, stumbling along after victims with all the speed of an arthritic turtle; as kids, we used to joke that you could jog a mile or 2, catch up on your sleep, read the newspaper, hav... Read more